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Stuff I’ve recently saved to Pinboard.
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Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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In this short, hyper-charged book, Cory Doctorow breaks down the real problem with surveillance capitalism — and how we can dismantle it.
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Dr. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks. It wasn’t the first time she was right about something big.
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Rust bringt so viele schlaue Ideen mit, dass die Programmiersprache viele Experten sofort überzeugt hat. Und hoffentlich einer rosigen Zukunft entgegensieht.
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A complete guide about searching, finding and replacing in Vim, in one or multiple file, with or without plugins.
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Finished off a new little project of mine. System UIcons is a growing collection of clean and simple icons I've designed specifically for products. Use how you want, without attribution ✨
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Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by <a href='http://jonyablonski.com'>Jon Yablonski</a>.
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A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?
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A Universal Basic Income (UBI) would improve everyone’s lives, increase our free time, empower workers, and ensure everyone has food and a roof over their head. These are noble goals, but obviously there’s a downside or it would already be implemented, right?
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Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it
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Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader.
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The Application DBA got a clean database from the infrastructure DBA, and was in charge of schema design: creating tables, indexes, constraints, and tuning SQL. The application DBA was also the one who implemented ETL processes and data migrations. In teams that used stored procedures, the application DBA would maintain those as well.
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Remember when a Google search used to lead you somewhere?
Now it increasingly just keeps you on Google. In fact, Google results take up 62.6% of the first screen of search results in a sample of 15,000 searches.
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David Shor lost his job at Civis Analytics after his promotion of an academic study on protests created a Twitter controversy. But the socialist data guru’s insights into U.S. politics and the 2020 election are more interesting than cancel culture.
